Lyon first French club in terms of playing time of its young people, Marseille last

2023-11-22 16:32:41

OL is one of the clubs that uses the most young people from its training center in Europe. OM, on the contrary, are not playing a single one this season.

In a new weekly letterthe CIES Football Observatory (International Center for the Study of Sport) reviewed the playing time granted to players trained at the club within “60 leagues around the world», including Ligue 1. It appears that within the 5 major championships (France, England, Spain, Italy, Germany), the first men’s team of Olympique Lyonnais is the second team relying the most on its training center, behind the Athletic Club (Bilbao, Spain).

After 11 Ligue 1 matches, 45.6% of OL players’ playing time concerns players trained at the club. This concerns, for example, Maxence Caqueret (967 minutes), Sinaly Diomandé (810 minutes), Alexandre Lacazette (648 minutes) and Rayan Cherki (642 minutes). With Athletic (68.9%) and Lyon, another Basque club, Real Sociedad (45.4%), completes the podium.

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Real Madrid, Osasuna, Valencia, FC Barcelona and Las Palmas are also part of the top 10 where we therefore find 7 Spanish clubs. Just ahead of Barça, we find Stade Rennais in 8th position (30.6%). This confidence in their training center, voluntary or forced, is not paying off this season for Lyon, last in Ligue 1, and Rennes, 13th, which has just replaced its coach Bruno Genesio with Julien Stéphan.

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Further down in the CIES ranking, we find Montpellier (24.8%) and Le Havre (21.4%). In this game, Paris Saint-Germain ranks 14th in L1 (7.6%), relying on French neo-international Warren Zaire-Emery (1,265 minutes). Olympique de Marseille is the only L1 team not to have given any minutes to a player trained at the club. RC Lens, involved in the Champions League, is barely better (0.7%). Are considered to be trained at the club “players who have spent at least three years between (the age of) 15 and 21 in their employment club», Specifies the CIES.